The flute hurts. At least it does for fans of rapper André 3000, who, as one half of Outkast, lit up the charts with early-noughties hits such as Ms. Jackson and Hey Ya! But that was a long time ago, ...

“Playing for Keeps” is a blasé work spiked with trifling comic bits and smoothed out with a mellow dilemma that works to limp the film to a predestined conclusion of awkward family bliss. The “Muzak” ...

Whether you know it or not, you’ve been in the mood for some time. That’s Mood Media Corp, one of the world’s largest providers of atmospheric music and visuals (along with digital signage, scent, ...

Muzak Holdings LLC, the company that provides the world with elevator music, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Tuesday. The Fort Mills, South Carolina company is facing up to 500 million ...

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When I step into an elevator in the Wolf Building, a seven-story former paper factory in Philadelphia’s Chinatown North neighborhood, the Muzak is typical if a little archaic: A smooth jazz rendition ...

Ed is a many-year veteran of the writing and editing world who enjoys taking sentences apart and putting them back together. He also likes making them from scratch. For more than a quarter of a ...

Muzak may have haunted the aisles of its last supermarket: the company has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Somehow, Muzak has accumulated between $100 and $500 million worth of debt, yet ...

Muzak Holdings LLC, the maker of elevator music, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Tuesday. The company owes hundreds of millions of dollars to creditors and has assets of less than $50,000.

The comment seemed incongruous at the time as we were riding in his car, but my tennis friend said, “I like elevator music.” He gestured toward the car radio and noted “that’s the Beatles.” No vocal ...

The Austin-based background music company has just emerged out of bankruptcy, with a continuing appetite for the softer hits or ambient styles it provides. Meanwhile, some fans of the old Muzak still ...